Jean Jacques Regis de Cambaceres

Jean Jacques Regis de Cambaceres (18 October 1753-8 March 1824) was Second Consul of the French Consulate from 1799 to 1804 and one of the authors of the Napoleonic Code.

Biography
Jean Jacques Regis de Cambaceres was born in Montpellier, France into a family of nobles, and he worked as councillor of the courts of accounts and finances in Toulouse. In 1789, he supported the French Revolution, and he was a moderate member of the National Convention during the uprising. He became a diplomat of the French First Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars, and he supported the Coup of 18 Brumaire while serving as Minister of Justice. Napoleon Bonaparte made Cambaceres his Second Consul under the French Consulate, and he helped him with the drafting of the Napoleonic Code. He disapproved of Napoleon's seizure of power for himself, but he became Arch-Chancellor of the Empire and President of the Chamber of Peers. In 1815, he was deported after the Bourbon Restoration, but he was invited to return in 1818 due to his vote against Louis XVI of France's execution in 1793. He died in Paris in 1824.